Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution. The 8th release of Linux Mint comes with numerous bug fixes and a lot of improvements. If you want to have a taste of Linux, Mint is the way to go. Continue reading
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins. Continue reading
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Continue reading
Almost every computer has a file archiving / extracting tool. Wether is was PK zip under DOS, WinZip under Windows 95, or WinRAR, 7-Zip, PowerArchiver in current times. As you know, I strongly believe in, and encourage the use of, open and free software where possible. So for the past years, when I wanted to create or extract an archive, 7-Zip was the tool I turned to. In some cases, I had problems extracting multipart .rar archives – containing nothing but legal content of course (*cough*). And that’s when I started looking for a replacement, and fell in love with PeaZip. Continue reading
Linux Mint is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu but with a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, a web-based package installation interface, and a number of different editions. They try to provide an elegant Linux desktop, with a lively community and user interaction. Continue reading
Firefox is an open source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions. Continue reading
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Continue reading
Firefox is an open source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The 3.6 series has some improvements on Windows 7, better support for open video, WOFF font support. The most obvious will be the new skins, called Personas, you can choose from.
VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The Windows 7 image quality issues should have been fixed in this release. Continue reading